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Mercury is now visible naked eye from Tucson, although it did require an offset from Venus to find it. Once located it was easy to hold in view a little over two fingers WNW of Venus. Jupiter was just over three fingers ESE of Venus.

Using a TEC140, I was able to easily frame Mercury and Venus with a 41 Pan, which has a 2.7 Degree TFoV.

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Looks like you have a good shot at the west. Is Mercury going any higher or is this it? I don't think I have ever seen it this high and above Venus. I have too many trees in the west to get a really good view, but it's ok.

I observed Mercury and Venus again last night from a spot with a great western horizon. Both planets fit into the field of view of my Celestron 8x42s. Mercury was faint but was visible to the naked-eye.

In between the rain, clouds, rainbows and wind, I was able to get a picture of Mercury. Mercury is pretty elusive and I only have 30 minutes to try and capture it before it sets. While the wind was pretty strong and seeing sucks since Mercury is so low, I never expected much, but I was able to capture 1000 images before Mercury was too low. Even with 1000 images, almost 2/3 were unusable.

Here is the best 280 frames of the elusive inner planet. Mercury is currently 0.85187 AU from Earth, its apparent magnitude is 0.4. angular diameter is 7.9 and its 41.2% illuminated.